| Title |
Description |
Call
Number |
Separate
Records Available? |
| Abolition
& emancipation |
This project brings together a
strong group of papers from libraries and museums
froma round the world. An extensive assembly, it
is divided into six colelctions categorized from
their source location. The colleciton includes the
papers of leading figures in the movement for the
Abolition of Slavery, such as Thomas Clarkson, William
Lloyd Garrison, Zachary Macaulay, Harriet Martineau,
Harriet Beecher Stowe & William Wilberforce.
Digital
guide.
|
MICFILM 3413 |
No |
| Anti-slavery
collection: 18th-19th centuries |
Originally from the Library of
the Society of Friends, this collection contains
anti-slavery tracts, pamphlets, and journals pertaining
to the abolition movement for ending the African
slave trade. Guide available. |
MICFILM 1283 |
No |
| Black
Abolitionist papers, 1830-1865 |
The collection, gathered from
over 100 libraries, contains writings, speeches,
correspondence, other manuscripts and printed materials
of African-Americans involved in the anti-slavery
movement. Topics covered are: Northern/Southern
separatism within the church; black colonization
and emigration; black political action; church support
of black educational institutions; and black intellectual
and social life. Guide available. |
MICFILM 3161 |
No |
| The
Boyd B. Stutler collection of John Brown papers |
John Brown (1800 – 1859) was an
American abolitionist, the first white abolitionist
to advocate and to practice guerrilla warfare as
a means to the abolition of slavery. His attempt
to start a slave rebellion in 1859 electrified the
nation. Brown's subsequent capture by federal forces
commanded by Robert E. Lee, his trial for treason
to the state of Virginia, and his execution by hanging
were an important part of the origins of the American
Civil War Digital
guide. |
MICFILM 1291 |
No |
| Letters
received by the Secretary of the Navy from commanding
officers of squadrons, 1841-1886: African Squadron,
1843-1861 |
Pre-Civil War records regarding
the enforecment of banning the slave trade. |
MICFILM 136 |
No |
| Papers
of the American slave trade |
The collection documents the international
slave trade in Britain’s New World colonies and
the United States from 1718 to the trade’s demise
after 1808. Materials primarily come from the slave
trading ports in Rhode Island and North Carolina.
Digital
guide.
|
MICFILM 3386 |
No |
| Race,
slavery, and free blacks: petitions to southern
legislatures, 1777-1867 |
The collections include virtually
all extant legislative and county court petitions
on the subject of race and slavery. The documents
were written by a broad range of persons, including
blacks and whites, males and females, slaveholders
and nonslaveholders. Digital
guide. |
MICFILM 3551 |
No |
| Race,
slavery, and free blacks: Series II, Petitions to
southern county courts, 1775-1867 |
The collections include virtually
all extant legislative and county court petitions
on the subject of race and slavery. The documents
were written by a broad range of persons, including
blacks and whites, males and females, slaveholders
and nonslaveholders. Digital
guide. |
MICFILM 4126 |
No |
| The
records of the American Colonization Society
|
The purpose of the American Colonization
Society, founded in 1817, was to help freed slaves
emigrate from the United States to Africa, and it
was instrumental in establishing the colony of Liberia.
Its membership was a mix of both pro- and anti-slavery
individuals who believed colonization was the best
way to deal with racial problems. The Society achieved
limited success in its endeavors prior to the 1860's.
After the Civil War and the end of slavery, the
Society's activities centered primarily on helping
people who wished to emigrate to Liberia and on
providing funds for their support after arrival
in Africa. In the twentieth century, the Society
was concerned chiefly with the support of education
in Liberia. Guide available.
|
MICFILM 3409 |
No |
| Records
of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Alabama,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
1865-1870 |
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen
and Abandoned Lands, often referred to as the Freedmen's
Bureau, was established in the War Department by
an act of March 3, 1865. The Bureau supervised all
relief and educational activities relating to refugees
and freedmen, including issuing rations, clothing
and medicine. The Bureau also assumed custody of
confiscated lands or property in the former Confederate
States, border states, District of Columbia, and
Indian Territory. Guide available. |
MICFILM 3208 |
No |
| Records
of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Georgia,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
1865-1869 |
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen
and Abandoned Lands, often referred to as the Freedmen's
Bureau, was established in the War Department by
an act of March 3, 1865. The Bureau supervised all
relief and educational activities relating to refugees
and freedmen, including issuing rations, clothing
and medicine. The Bureau also assumed custody of
confiscated lands or property in the former Confederate
States, border states, District of Columbia, and
Indian Territory. Guide available. |
MICFILM 1200 |
No |
| Records
of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior relating
to the suppression of the African slave trade and
Negro colonization, 1854-1872 |
The collection records relating
to the suppression of the slave trade and the colonization
of recaptured and free blacks. By Acts of 1807 and
1819, Congress prohibited the importation of slaves
into the United States and the act of 1819 authorized
the President to employ U.S. armed vessels to seize
any ships or vessels of the United States engaged
in slave trade, also to return the captured Africans
to Africa and to appoint agents on the coast of
Africa to receive the returned Africans. The
records include communications relating to colonization
in Liberia, British Honduras, the Danish West Indies,
and Haiti; Letters regarding the capture of slave
ships and the suppression of the slave trade; communications
from the president, 1861-1865; and prosecutions
for slave smuggling. Guide available. |
MICFILM 135 |
No |
| Slave
trade book and pamphlet collection, 1680-1865 |
Filmed from the Heartman Manuscript
Collection: Manuscripts on Slavery, housed
at Xavier University in New Orleans, the
collection provides insight into the civil and legal
status of enslaved blacks. The New Orleans Municipal
records are an extremely valuable source of information
on the work and leisure activities of the 19th century
slaves, and the Xavier library also holds the only
surviving manuscripts of official slave-auction
records. Guide available.
|
MICFILM 1528 |
Yes |
| Slavery
in ante-bellum Southern industries |
While most of the slave labor
force in the antebellum South worked in agriculture,
a small, often overlooked percentage toiled in industry:
in iron and gold mining, naval stores production,
metal fabricating, brick making, quarrying, tobacco
processing, and railroad construction. The collection
includes records of these industries, and also chronicles
the transition from slavery to a free labor system
during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Although
the selections concentrate on the antebellum era,
several run well beyond the end of the Civil War.
Digital
guide. |
MICFILM 1742 |
No |
| Slavery
tracts and pamphlets from the West India Committee
collection |
A collection of pamphlets on the
sugar trade of the West Indies and its slave labor.
Included are many items not easily found in other
public collections. There are approximately 350
pamphlets, including some by Wilberforce Macaulay.
Guide available. |
MICFILM 1365 |
No |
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